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What to study before Text setting

Making the stressed syllables of the words fall on the strong beats when a text is set to a melody. Below, the concepts that come before, in the order in which one explains the next. Signed in, you see the same path minus what you already hold: your path.

Properties of sound
The four properties every musical sound has at once: duration, intensity, pitch and timbre.
Level 0
Note
The seven pitch names, and the sign that puts one of them on the page.
Level 1
Tone and semitone
The smallest distance Western music uses, and the whole tone built from two of them.
Level 1lesson Notes have names, and the names have a rule (First steps in theory)
Interval
The distance between two sounds, counted by note names, melodic or harmonic, simple or compound.
Level 1lesson The distance between two notes (First steps in theory)
Scale
A series of successive notes separated by tones and semitones, ascending or descending.
Level 4
Melody
A succession of sounds of different pitch and value that follows a musical logic.
Level 5
Note values and rests
The figures that say how long a sound lasts, and the rests that say the same about silence.
Level 1has practicelesson Counting time (First steps in theory)
The measure
Music divided into small parts of equal or variable duration, separated by barlines.
Level 1lesson Counting time (First steps in theory)
Metric accent
Why the first beat is strong, and how the strength runs down through the parts of each beat.
Level 1
Text setting
Making the stressed syllables of the words fall on the strong beats when a text is set to a melody.
Level 6